アマ ミチヒロ　教授　Ama, Michihiro

20世紀前半の近代日本仏教（特に浄土真宗）とアメリカ社会、欧米文化との交渉を学際的に研究しています。他にも仏教を中心とした国際日本学（特に近代日本文学と仏教の関係）、近代日本仏教（特に浄土真宗）とエスニックスタディーズ、ジェンダースタディーズ、環境人文学の研究をしています。

イギリスとアメリカに関する一般的な知識を習得する一方で、興味をもったことを、発表、質疑応答、ディスカッションなどを通して深く掘り下げていきます。英米文化を国単位で理解するだけでなく、日本を含めた他国との相関関係と文化形態の比較を通して視野を広げて欲しいと思っています。 

国際文化演習／比較文化講義／世界の宗教と文化／English Workshop

1991年ハワイパシフィック大学卒業。
1999年大谷大学大学院（文学研究科仏教学）修士課程修了。
2007年カリフォルニア大学アーバイン校博士号 (Ph.D.) 取得
アラスカ大学アンカレッジ校准教授、モンタナ大学カラシマツカサ日本語日本文化寄附講座准教授・教授を経て、大谷大学に着任。

• Immigrants to the Pure Land: The Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898–1941. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2011. 313 pp.
• The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction: Path Literature and an Interpretation of Buddhism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. 342 pp.

•  “The Legal Dimensions of the Formation of Shin Buddhist Temples in Los Angeles.” In Issei Buddhism in Americas (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010).
• “Flying Sparks: Dissensions among the Early Shin Buddhists in Canada.” In Flowers on the Rock: Global and Local Buddhisms in Canada (Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014).
• “‘First White Buddhist Priestess’: A Case Study of Sunya Gladys Pratt at Tacoma Buddhist Temple.” In Buddhism Beyond Borders: New Perspectives on Buddhism in the United States (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015).
• “Translation with a Critical Note, ‘A Future of Shin Buddhism in America: Tana Daishō’s Vision for American Buddhism.’” In Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts: An Anthology (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019).
• “Voices of Buddhist Women in Modern Japan: A Representation of Women’s Spirituality in the Seishinkai.” In Adding Flesh to Bones: Kiyozawa Manshi’s Seishinshugi in Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought (University of Hawai‘i Press, April, 2022).

• “Shifting Subjectivity in the Translation of Shinran’s Texts”
• “Rethinking Kaikyō (Overseas Propagation of Japanese Buddhism): Integrating Perspectives from Both Sides”
• “Transcending Death in Departures (Okuribito): A Case Study of Film, Literature, and Buddhism in Modern Japan”
• “Shin Buddhist Women in America”
• “A Transnational Development of Japanese Buddhism during the Postwar Period: The Case of Tana Daishō”
• “A Neglected Diary, A Forgotten Buddhist Couple: Tana Daishō’s Internment Camp Diary as a Historical and Literary Text”
• “Shinran as ‘Other’: Revisiting Kurata Hyakuzō’s The Priest and His Disciples”
• “A Jewish Buddhist Priest: The Curious Case of Julius A. Goldwater and the Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple in 1930–1940s Los Angeles”
• “Detached Hero, Attached Heroine: Buddhism, Authorship, and the Creation of a Literary Self”
• “Tannishō and Narrativity in the Light of Monogatari and Setsuwa: Creative Aspects of Writing and the Effects of Paradox in Tannishō”